Posted: Thu Feb 15, 2018 3:30 pm
Post subject: Origins of names Smitkowski and Labinski
I'm doing a little work to help a friend discover his Polish Roots. He gave me the surnames of his grand parents as Smitkowski and Labinska. From looking at a few databases, it appears the spellings might have been Śmitkowski and Labińska or Łabinska or Łabińska.
I would appreciate learning anything about these names and what opinions are about the original spellings.
Śmitkowski - od niemieckiego Schmied ‘kowal’, od niemieckich nazw osobowych Schmied, Schmid(t). The name is from the German “Schmied,” which means blacksmith.
Łabiński - - prawdopodobnie od staropolskiego łaba, łabaj ‘wyzwisko; też o wielkim psie’. My understanding of Polish is not good enough to translate this one. Maybe someone else can help.
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